? starter activity

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? starter activity
Can you recognise the face of the murderer of
Rosa Luxemburg?
Rosa Luxemburg
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Who was responsible for the death of Rosa
Luxemburg?
? Key words Weimar communist Spartacist
Freikorps
? LOs

• To explain the differences between right left
  wing politics
• To identify the aims of the Spartacists reasons
  for failure

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? Your task

• Political parties are often divided into two
  groups. Those of the left and those on the right.
• What are the two main parties in the UK? How are
  their policies different? Who tends to vote for
  these parties

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? Your task

• Match these phrases to a party
• Trade unions
• Cutting taxation
• Free enterprise
• NHS welfare state
• Private ownership
• Nationalisation (taking over factories)
• Strong law and order
• No immigration
• Strong sense of patriotism
• Write a definition of left- and right-wing
  political parties in your notes.

? Extension. What would left and right wing
parties in Germany want after World War One?
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? Your task

• Read p.8-9 and note down the following
• Under the heading Changes that the new leader of
  Germany, Friedrich Ebert, made take notes
• Under the heading Aims of the Spartacists take
  notes
• ?Why did people in Germany especially support
  Red Rosa use p.9 to help

KPD poster German Communist Party
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Reforms of Friedrich Ebert

• Kaiser abdicated
• Ebert leader of Social Democrats
• Became new President of Germany
• Improved conditions in Germany, e.g. reduced
  working hours, provided help for unemployed,
  improved housing food, introduced new freedoms
• Elections for new German parliament (Reichstag)

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Aims beliefs of Spartacists

• Left-wing revolutionaries
• Germany run by workers soldiers councils
• Revolution like the one in Russia (1917)
• Believed in communist ideas of equality, fairer
  distribution of wealth, no need for private
  property

Karl Liebneckt Rosa Luxemburg
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What can we learn from this poster about the
aims of the Spartacists? ?What are the problems
in using this source?
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? Your task

• Read p.8-9 and note down the reasons for the
  failure of the Spartacist Uprising
• Study the information box on p.9 on the
  Communists and the Friekorps (Free Corps). List
  reasons why they fought against each other.
• ?Prepare an explanation of the term Weimar
  Republic for the class. Use the Fact box on
  p.9 to help

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Reasons for failure

• Poorly organised
• Spartacists failed to capture many buildings in
  Berlin
• Lacked support of other left-wing groups
• Govt had support of Friekorps
• Spartacist leaders murdered party lack direction

One of the armoured vehicles used by the
Freikorps to put down the Spartacist Uprising
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Tensions between Spartacists Freikorps

• Freikorps Spartacists were militant groups
• Freikorps blamed Spartacists for social unrest in
  Germany defeat in WWI
• Freikorps wanted return to strong single ruler
  possibly Kaiser
• Spartacists wanted peoples government like the
  one in Russia

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? Your task

• Study sources 11-16 on p.15 (SHP). Copy out these
  questions and find evidence from the sources to
  answer them. Explain how reliable the evidence is
  based on NOP
• Were the Freikorps acting on orders from the
  government?
• Did the government in any way encourage the
  Freikorps to murder Rosa Luxembourg?
• Were the Spartacists themselves to blame for the
  murders? 

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? Homework

• Produce a police report (with photos) on the
  death of Rosa Luxemburg.
• Describe the key events
• Use evidence/statements from eye-witnesses
• Explain who were the key suspects
• Describe actions taken by the authorities after
  Rosas death
• ?Use weblinks on Studyhistory to develop your
  report

Starter sentences I would like to report a
crime committed .. I have gathered evidence
from a number of witnesses including All the
evidence points to being to blame for Rosas
death I would recommend the following steps be
taken
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The site of R.L.s murder inBerlin
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? Extension task

• Visit www.studyhistory.co.uk and go to the
  weblinks section for GCSE Germany. Find out more
  about the life and ideas of Rosa Luxemburg.
  Produce a factoid. What does her life tell us
  about Germany at the time of the foundation of
  the Weimar Republic?

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? Plenary

• Left and right wing?
• Key aims of Spartacists
• Appeal of Rosa Luxemburg?
• Reasons for failure
• ?What problems would Ebert now face in governing
  Germany?